Questions Responsive Cities

We understand Advanced Urbanism as the sensitive integration of technology in city. Advanced Urbanism is about merging technologies, culture and government into a participatory inclusive planning process. Transdisciplinary by its nature, this approach demands for new managerial and educational programs built on the following trends. 1 -…

FabCities for global improvement More than 200 years since the Industrial Revolution, global urbanisation keeps accelerating. United Nations projections indicate that 75% of the human population will be living in cities by 2050. We are losing livelihoods through both offshoring and automation, and this in turn…

Adhocracy in contemporary city Adhocracy is the system of flexible and informal organization and management in place of rigid bureaucracy. The first edition of adhocracy was based on the use of digital tools. In 2012 for Istanbul we were witnessing the rise of the digital…

The greatest revolution of information Interact and interactive information in between people, space, complexities is the big revolution of our era and this new knowledge of thinking. The last few decades have confirmed the consequences of this crucial shift: from mobility and delocalization, to communication…

City’s call for new representation 300000kms is a group of architect and planning based in Barcelona defining the new approaches to the city as a multiple scale system, from neighbourhoods to the larger dimension, and produce data on several topics, relevant in a worldwide scale.…

How to design for the responsive city? Today we have the knowledge and means to realize whatever we imagine, witnessing advancements in production technology not only in the architecture field but, in biology, ecology, virtual engineering as well. In fact, a radical shift is in…

Looking for adaptive cities UN-habitat promotes socially and environmentally sustainable cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all. Population is growing exponentially every year and city are the centres of massively production and consumption of goods, opportunities and diseases. Slum people, in fact, have…

The rise of closed worlds We live in offices. We spend our life in atmospherically sealed enclosures that define collective, internally rational and self-referential spaces eternally processing inputs and outputs. Since the pilot project of NASA living pod in 1960, man has been treated as…

Entering the inners of technology What are we really talking about when it gets to technologies? Technology itself has a dual nature. It can both provide tools for a positive contribution as well as the opposite, according to its use. However, the digital phenomenon presumes…

Gaming platforms as tools for town planning in the real world Colossal Order is a nineteen-people game developer company based in Tampere, Finland, which focus its research on simulations, basically reproducing events and processes of the real world into a gaming platform with a modest addition…